Filter taxonomy term view by referenced taxonomy term

Question

Using two taxonomies.

Fruit:

Banana Orange Blueberry Strawberry Lemon

Fruit taxonomy has a term reference to the color taxonomy

Color:

Red Orange Yellow Blue Purple Green

Created a view using the built in taxonomy term view in a content pane::

Fields Taxonomy term: Fruit Color [this is excluded from display]

Taxonomy term: Name

Filter criteria Taxonomy vocabulary: Machine name (= Fruit)

Relationships Taxonomy term: Content using Fruit

[Configure Relationship: Taxonomy term: Content using Fruit Relate each Content with a Fruit set to the term. Require this relationship]

View Output::

Red Strawberry

Orange Orange

Yellow Banana Lemon

Blue Blueberry

I would like to add a contextual filter to this view that takes the Color taxonomy name from the url and only shows the fruit for that color.

color/red would only show:

Red Strawberry

color/yellow would only show:

Yellow Banana Lemon

I'm stuck on how to add the contextual filter. I've tried taxonomy term name with validation set to change the term name to id. I also tried the fruit_color field with validation set to change the term name to id.

Should the term name/fruit_color field be configured differently? Do I need to add another relationship?

Additional info: The view displays taxonomy terms. The result set is empty when I try adding a contextual filter. The relationship field should only show Fruit terms that have been used at least once to tag content.

Answer 1

To answer you question: No, it shouldn't need to be configured differently; it should work the way you describe. Here is a screenshot of my configuration (following your description) that works as you would expect (you can see the contextual filter in the background set to 'yellow'):

Perhaps you can spot some tiny deviation from your config here.
Good luck in any case!